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841.
by khuey 6y ago
Do we really need to pay for an electric grid that can handle a once every 20 year load?
842.
by khuey 6y ago
Given that two of the three countries with the highest known uranium reserves are Australia and Canada I'm not too worried about "random sheikhdom having the world by the proverbial balls"
843.
by khuey 6y ago
California imports a lot of electricity (18% of consumption at this moment) so we can be affected by what's going on in nearby states (particularly in the Pacific NW where we draw a lot of hydropower from). Installed generating capacit
844.
by khuey 6y ago
Last night's issue was not curtailed transmission capacity, there simply isn't enough electricity for everyone in the western US to run their air conditioners at these temperatures.
845.
by khuey 6y ago
It was not protected in the US until the US/EC Wine Trade Agreement was signed in 2006.
846.
by khuey 6y ago
That does not actually boil down to anything at the CPU level. That's just a (better) abstraction for the Rust programmer.
847.
by khuey 6y ago
Tax authorities are not going to chase you around the world for $150.
848.
by khuey 6y ago
Children are excluded, but the elderly are not. Prime-age (25-54) employment rates are quite a bit higher than 60%.
849.
by khuey 6y ago
USPS delivers plenty of my Amazon packages to my definitely not rural apartment in San Francisco.
850.
by khuey 6y ago
You must be pretty young then.
851.
by khuey 6y ago
Mozilla's revenue is $400M a year. A few million dollars in consulting revenue isn't going to move the needle.
852.
by khuey 6y ago
This is exactly what Rust does by default too, btw.
853.
by khuey 6y ago
They vote for higher real-estate prices but that doesn't in general require multifamily housing, scarcity works just as well.
854.
by khuey 6y ago
If your implication is that the KMT is more repressive than the Communist Party my only response is laughter.
855.
by khuey 6y ago
Seems like you could just copy the signature from the box next door then?
856.
by khuey 6y ago
The core Gecko engineering group in Taipei was all laid off already back in 2018. I'm not sure what was left but apparently it wasn't considered very essential.
857.
by khuey 6y ago
There is no right to trade with foreign companies. Try doing business with a North Korean company and see how that goes for you.
858.
by khuey 6y ago
Congress voted to ban it from federally owned computers which is much different than a blanket nationwide sanction.
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by khuey 6y ago
There's no "basic right" of foreign businesses to do business in the United States.
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by khuey 6y ago
There's no police officer hanging out at the polling location to arrest someone for signing their name incorrectly on the voter roll. At least in California, signatures on the rolls are only verified after the fact. At least with mail
861.
by khuey 6y ago
There's no general First Amendment right to free speech for foreign nationals not physically present in the US.
862.
by khuey 6y ago
Well the President is putting more effort into banning Tik Tok than fighting Covid at the moment.
863.
by khuey 6y ago
This line of argument can justify anything. Can we with 100% certainty say it wasn't organized by <insert whatever country you are from>? No? Time to start dropping bombs.
864.
by khuey 6y ago
The US has decided to allow people to sue the government for things like this. Doesn't mean they'll win, of course, but having legal recourse in the courts is something that we have decided to allow.
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by khuey 6y ago
Discovery in this should be fun on both sides.
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by khuey 6y ago
How is the person living there going to figure out how to correctly forge the signatures of all those previous tenants?
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Huawei data centre built to spy on Papua New Guinea(afr.com)
3 points by khuey 6y ago|1 comments
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by khuey 6y ago
The KMT assassinated Henry Liu in California in the 1980s so they weren't crazy to be afraid.
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by khuey 6y ago
You really should go read the indictment.
870.
by khuey 6y ago
I'm not sure you understand how bad the coronavirus situation is here. People's kids aren't going to be able to go to school in person this fall. Short of the outbreak of WW3 I can't imagine the pandemic not being the to

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